upon acceptance of its recommendations. A Working Group on Legal 

 Questions Related to Scientific Investigations in the Oceans (LEG) 

 has also been dissolved. 



International Coordination Groups (ICG's) are responsible for 

 coordinating international marine expeditions, projects, or programs 

 supported by IOC including the Cooperative Investigations of the 

 Mediterranean (CIM), now in abeyance; the Cooperative Investigations 

 of the Northern Part of the Eastern Central Atlantic (CINECA), now 

 terminated; the Tsunami Warning System in the Pacific (ITSU); and the 

 Southern Oceans Study (SOC). In 1975, upon completion of the pro- 

 gram, the ICG for the Cooperative investigations of the Caribbean 

 and Adjacent Regions (CIGAR) was disbanded and replaced by an IOC Re- 

 gional Association for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (lOCARIBE). 

 lOCARIBE was established on an experimental basis for a 6-year 

 period. It will continue to develop the regional cooperation in the 

 marine sciences instituted by CICAR over its 7-year program. In 

 1977 the ICG for the Cooperative Investigations of the Kuroshio and 

 Adjacent Regions (CSK) was terminated and replaced by a Working 

 Group for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) , which in Cooperation with 

 CCOP, CCOP/SOPAC, SEATAR, and others, is developing plans to continue 

 scientific investigations in the Western Pacific. 



IOC includes a number of working committees. One, the Working 

 Committee on International Oceanographic Data Exchange (lODE), is 

 primarily responsible for arranging for the exchange of data and 

 information. lODE's subsidiary bodies include Groups of Experts on 

 such arrangements as the Marine Environmental Data Information Refer- 

 ral System, (MEDI) designed to complement but not duplicate the 

 Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Information System (ASFIS) by pro- 

 viding descriptions of organizational sources for marine information 

 and descriptions of coherent data files. Another group of experts 

 developed the concept of the Responsible National Oceanographic Data 

 Center (RNODC). An ad hoc group called Marine Information Management 

 (MIM) coordinates lODE's activities. 



In 1976 the Working Committee on Training, Education, and Mutual 

 Assistance in Marine Sciences (TEMA) established a Voluntary Assis- 

 tance Program (IOC/ VAP) similar to that developed by the World 

 Meteorological Organisation (WMO). IOC's Working Committee for the 

 Integrated Global Ocean Station System (IGOSS) was superseded in 

 1977 by the Joint lOC/WMO Working Committee for IGOSS. The Working 

 Committee on Global Investigations of Pollution in the Marine Envi- 

 ronment (GIPME) supersedes an International Coordination Group for 

 GIPME. GIPME includes a Group of Experts on Methods, Standards, and 

 Intercalibration (GEMSI). IOC is also responsible for general pro- 

 grams and policies of the International Tsunami Information Center 

 (ITIC) in Honolulu, Hawaii. 



IOC participates with other international organizations in develop- 

 ing programs and projects. With these organizations it forms Joint 

 International Coordination Groups (JICGs) and Joint Groups of Experts 

 (JGEs), several of which are described under entries 35 to 39. 



23. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: WHO 



Established in 1948 to promote the highest possible level of 

 health for all peoples, WHO is actively concerned with the study of 

 and control of ocean Contamination, particularly in the Coastal 

 zone, and studies of shellfish contamination and the effects of 

 contamination in coastal recreation areas. It is also responsible 

 for the establishment of international standards for Fish Protein 

 Concentrate (FPC). 



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